The India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) will organise the country's first startup competition on energy storage, electric vehicles, charging infrastructure and micro-grids as part of its fifth international conference and expo here on January 11-12, the industry body has announced.

According to an IESA statement here, the fifth edition of its Energy Storage India 2018 event, which includes pre-conference workshops on January 10, would focus on addressing the issues, challenges and opportunities for energy storage, micro-grid and electric vehicle (EV) solutions in the country.

The governments's National Electric Mobility Mission Plan, launched in 2013, aims at gradually ensuring a vehicle population of about 6-7 million electric and hybrid vehicles in India by 2020. The vision enunciated two years ago is for India to have 100 per cent EVs by 2030.

India is still at a very basic level on energy storage solutions, while the few existing facilities are hugely expensive.